Towards the front of Henry Carnegie Phipps' Spring Hill estate were his private stable. More on Spring Hill here.
The rear of the stable.
The Phipps family were horticulturists. Besides for the property having a massive variety of plant life, they grew some of their own in these now derelict greenhouses. 
The west end of the stable. Each end had a small house.
The view looking out from the stable.
Time and mother nature have done a job on the garden wall. It is broken, cracked, and falling apart in literally almost every spot. Balusters lay on the ground in pieces, the stairs are barely traversable and if this were left alone much longer would most likely crumble to dust. Luckily some help is on the way and hopefully one day it will be restored to it's former glory.
Westbury House was built c. 1905 for John S. Phipps by the architect George Crawley. John, or Jay as he was known, was the eldest of 3 sons of Henry Phipps, one of Andrew Carnegie's partners at Carnegie Steel. He married Margarita Grace, of english descent, and promised her an english style estate similar to the one she had grown up on. What resulted was a giant mansion on roughly 160 acres in Old Westbury, complete with two ponds, a walled garden, numerous outbuildings and more landscaping than a gardener would know what to do with. Jay's two younger brothers and two sisters lived on palatial estates in Old Westbury as well (Spring Hill, Erchless, Templeton and Knole). Click HERE to see Old Westbury Gardens on google earth. When Jay and Margarita passed away in the late 1950's, their daughter Peggie helped turn Westbury House into a botanical garden open to the public. See OldWestburyGardens.org for their official website.
The rear of the house as seen from the terrace level.
The rear of the house below the terrace.
The view from the top of the terrace. The ballroom looked out over this.
At the end of the allee there is a giant wrought iron gate.
To the west of the house, down a large staircase is the first pond. On the far side is a reflecting pool with a 10 corinthian columned pergola behind it.
To the east of the house is the swimming pool and further beyond the second and larger pond.
At the far end of the east pond is this gazebo.
One of three entrances to the massive walled garden. Dedicated in memory of Margarita Grace.
The view of the walled garden from just inside the gate.
The view from the far end of the walled garden, under the pergola and looking back at the entrance gate.
This urn originally sat in front of Pembroke, Joseph DeLamar's estate in Glen Cove (seen below). When Pembroke was unfortunately demolished in 1968, the urn along with its duplicate were moved to Templeton, the Frederick Guest estate in Brookville. At the time the house had already been purchased by NYIT to be used as a conference center. After a 50 year life at Pembroke, the urn can still be seen today, 40 years after it moved 6 miles to its new home in front of Templeton.
Thomas Hastings, the very well known and talented architect of numerous estates on the North Shore (and numerous other very famous creations) built his own estate in Old Westbury in 1908. He wanted a study full of books, his wife wanted a stable to keep her horses. In 1913 a fire destroyed the original house, but Hastings rebuilt the new one to the same plans. The detail in this house is amazing, and you can tell that Hastings spared no expense. The front is a countyard, one side the front door, one side an allee of trees, one side a wall with a garden gate and one side the stables. Helen Hastings could look at her horses while standing in the doorway to the home.
The stable doors have since been removed, with half the structure now an apartment.
The rear of the house. Hastings planned the house around the rear and the open field that occupied the backyard (and also supplied a view to the dining room). Since then many trees have grown in destroying what Hastings had originally intended.
The poet William Cullen Bryant built this cottage for Jerusha Dewey on his estate in 1860. When General Lloyd Stevens Bryce purchased the property in 1900, he built his estate Clayton nearby but needed a larger guest house after he was appointed minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg under President Hoover. The entire first floor of the Dewey cottage was placed on stilts and a new first floor was built underneath. The structure is in the Gothic Revival style. Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson are known to have stayed at this house.
Upon Henry Clay Frick's death, Childs decided to renovate the house and give it a new name, 'Leftover Cottage'. Upon the departure of most of their staff during World War 2, the Fricks moved into the house, but before they did Childs had the firm of Innocenti & Webel give the house a little landscaping. The Fricks enjoyed living here so much they stayed in the house 6 years after the war ended before moving back into Clayton.
Thanks to 'The Henry Clay Frick Houses' by Martha Sanger for the information on the house.
